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Nast Homepage-
Homepage for the "Father of Political
Cartooning. Republican
Civics: The Origin of the Republican
Elephant. The
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The Thomas Nast Society encourages
research, the exchange of information
and knowledge, preservation of the
original and published works of Nast
and relates his contribution to his
time and his legacy. Senate
Art and Historical Collections: The
Cartoons of Thomas Nast Thomas Nast and
the U.S. Senate
-A barbed wit and regular appearances
in the popular 19th-century newspaper ,
Thomas Nast fathered the modern
political cartoon. Encyclopedia.com:
Thomas Nast--
Encyclopedia article on
Nast. Ulysses
S. Grant & Thomas
Nast--
The friendship between Nast and
Grant. Your
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Significance: Thomas Nast was the
first true political cartoonist. He
developed the universally known symbols of
America's two main political parties; the
donkey for the Democrats, and the elephant
for the Republicans. His rendition of
Santa Claus as a red-suited,
white-bearded, jolly old fat man is still
the most popular image of Old Saint
Nick. Date
of Birth: September 27,
1840 Date
of Death: December 7, 1902 Born
in: Landau, Germany Died
in: Guayaquil, Ecuador Occupation:
Newspaper cartoonist Books
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Biography-More
pages on contemporaries of Thomas
Nast Clara
Barton--
The "Angel of the Battlefield"
who brought nursing care to
wounded soldiers during the Civil
War and later founded the
American Red
Cross. Mathew
Brady--
The "Father of Photojournalism"
whose photos of Civil War
battlefields brought the horrors
of war home to civilians on the
homefront. Dr.
Benjamin
Rush--
Signer of the Declaration of
Independence, member of the
Constitutional Convention, noted
physician and ardent supporter
for the abolition of
slavery. Thomas
Nast-American
political cartoonist. General
George Armstrong
Custer--
Famous American Cavalry officer
who died at the Battle of the
Little Bighorn in
1876. General
Robert E.
Lee--
The commanding general for the
South in the American Civil
War.--New Lorenzo
de Zavala--First
Vice-President of the Republic of
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